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  • China sentences 11 members of mafia family to death

    09/29/2025 12:15:46 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 19 replies
    BBC ^ | September 29, 2025 | Jonathan Head, Tessa Wong
    A Chinese court has sentenced to death 11 members of a notorious family that ran scam centres in Myanmar, according to Chinese state media. Dozens of members of the Ming family were found guilty of conducting criminal activities, with many receiving lengthy jail sentences. The Ming family worked for one of the four clans that ran Myanmar's sleepy backwater town of Laukkai, close to the border with China, and turned it into a hub for gambling, drugs and scam centres. Myanmar eventually cracked down, arresting many members of these families in 2023 and handing them over to Chinese authorities. A...
  • Buddhist vigilantes kill 9 Muslims in Myanmar violence

    06/04/2012 2:06:59 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 44 replies
    Reuters ^ | Mon Jun 4, 2012 4:45am EDT | Aung Hla Tun
    Buddhist vigilantes in western Myanmar attacked a passenger bus and killed nine Muslims, police said on Monday, the deadliest communal violence in the tense region since a reformist government took power a year ago. The bus was besieged near Taunggoke town in the western state of Rakhine on Sunday evening by a group who blamed some of its passengers for the murder of a Buddhist woman a week ago, said local residents and politicians. One of those killed was travelling in a separate car. Rakhine is home to Myanmar's largest concentration of Muslims, but their presence is often resented by...